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As addressed in #82
Skein is created by Bruce Schneier, one of the leader in cryptography.
It is as fast as BLAKE, faster than all other SHA3 finalists and SHA2.
Skein hashes can have arbitrary lengths up to 1024 bits.
A longer hash means files are less likely to have hash collisions.
They can also produce shorter hashes for higher speed.
Using b3xx code for 256-XXX, 512-XXX and 1024-XXX skein hashes would be good.
There are only 224 hashes in total (assuming we exclude hashes not multiple of 8).
References:
http://www.skein-hash.info/sites/default/files/skein1.3.pdf
www.skein-hash.info/sites/default/files/NIST_CD_102610.zip
Python implementation: https://pythonhosted.org/pyskein
Java, C and Go: https://github.com/wernerd/Skein3Fish